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Clare Family
http://rehsgalleries.com/clare_family_virtex.htm
British Victorian artists who specialized in, and became famous for, their highly finished and precisely detailed fruit and flower paintings. The family consisted of George (1835 - 1900) and his sons Oliver (1853 - 1927) and Vincent (1855 - 1930).
Deanna's World: Victorian Treasures
http://www.dworldonline.com/victoria.htm
Explores the reign of Queen Victoria through artwork, literature, and music.
Great Exhibition of 1851
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/otherart/grtexhib.htm
The Great Exhibition of arts and manufactures at Crystal Palace, 1851, and some of the beautiful objects there
Subjects of Victorian Painting
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/subjects/index.html
Series of articles (and links) covering the major themes of Victorian painting.
The Idyllists
http://www.southwilts.com/site/the-idyllists/
Features group of Victorian painters and illustrators including John William North, Fred Walker, George Pinwell, Robert Walker Macbeth, Hubert Herkomer and the writer Richard Jefferies.
Victorian Art in Britain
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/britart.htm
Pre-Raphaelite and other Victorian paintings in museums around England.
Victorian Art in London
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/london/londart.htm
Describes museums and galleries in London where there is Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite art, and links to pages on the artists
Victorian Landscape Painting
http://www.rehsgalleries.com/victorian_landscape_art_virtex.htm
Exhibition of the English countryside during the 19th Century. Featured artists include: Boddington, de Breanski, Glendening, Goodwin, Gosling, Jutsum, Leader, Parker, Percy and Williams.
Victorian Painting
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/paintingov.html
Comprehensive list of links to every aspect of Victorian paiinting (including artists) from the Victorian Web.
Victorian Painting - Modern Life
http://www.roland-collection.com/rolandcollection/section/11/383.htm
Christopher Wood demonstrates how Victorian painting consisted of much more than wistful maidens and knights in armor. Painters turned for inspiration to what they saw around them. They incorporated visual clues in their pictures for the public to seek out and interpret, and they illustrated the social issues of the day. The public's enthusiastic reception of each new canvas confirmed their close relationship with this new school of painters. This is a 10mb MPEG file.